😀🚲Sep 24, 2025

Transit should be fast, frequent, and fareless. The cost is a pittance compared to the socialism we splash around for cars: $600M for NYC!!?? Take $1.2B out of the highway department's budget overrun bucket for a single offramp. 💸

https://thewaroncars.org/2025/08/12/episode-156-should-the-bus-be-free-with-yonah-freemark/

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People get too hung up on the cost of #farelessTransit and don't see the benefits of a system without gatekeeping, turnstiles, tracking devices, policing. All-door boarding, or eliminating administrative overhead, and giving access to everyone without jumping through hoops of means-tested reduced-fare programs.
Sep 24, 2025 at 6:32amWeb
Show threadJWcph, Radicalized By DecencySep 24, 2025
@enobacon My colleagues & I literally just talked about this at lunch today - one of them said that in some Danish city, she didn't remember which, they were planning or even implementing fareless public transit & they'd done their due diligence; according to the numbers they'd come out ahead when accounting for all the logistics & admin they would be able to eliminate by cutting the ticketing & control system 😊